MaintenanceMateT: An Intelligent Troubleshooting Agent for Advanced Maintenance Navy SBIR FY2006.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2006.2 Topic No.: N06-108 Topic Title: MaintenanceMateT: An Intelligent Troubleshooting Agent for Advanced Maintenance Proposal No.: N062-108-0446 Firm: Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc. 3250 Ocean Park Blvd. Suite 100 Santa Monica, California 90405 Contact: Azad Madni Phone: (310) 581-5440 Web Site: www.intelsystech.com Abstract: As weapon systems continue to grow both in numbers and sophistication, they pose an ever-increasing challenge to the maintainer community in terms of speed and accuracy of problem diagnosis and detection of incipient system failure or degradation. What maintainers need to meet this challenge is the ability to rapidly troubleshoot complex systems. Achieving this outcome requires sophisticated analytical reasoning ability and experience which few maintainers can be expected to have. It is this recognition that provides the impetus for developing an intelligent troubleshooting agent (ITA) that appears to the maintainer as a systems expert. This agent will be capable of rapid learning and close interaction with the maintainer. Phase I of this effort will employ current weapon platforms as a test bed to demonstrate the troubleshooting capabilities of the agent in diagnosing operational failure and degradation while assisting minimally experienced junior maintainers. Phase I will compare and contrast the advantages of the proposed solution relative to existing methods. Benefits: Cost-effective maintenance and improved readiness. Potential applications include rapid detection of system degradation/failures and prediction of incipient system failures in defense and commercial maintenance infrastructures for weapon systems, aerospace, commercial aviation, and automotive industries. Return